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If I want to use a special character, is there a way to do that? So, for instance, if I want to use the apothecaries' symbol for "ounce", which is Unicode (hex) 2125, in regular HTML I would use & # x 2125 ; (spaces inserted for clarity), but here this displays as #x2125; (despite showing up correctly in the preview pop-up). URL encoding would be %E2%84%A5 and that doesn't work either. Edited by publius
04/14/2015 3:48 pm
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I am close, but not quite, at a technical level to be able to help you with this. I will say I've been experimenting with Encoding in Chrome as a result of reading this post yesterday, and so far all I'm able to do with it is Extended ASCII and not Unicode, even after installing special fonts designed to overcome Chrome's limitations in the regard. I'm guessing encoding isn't a problem for you because you already use the characters, but at the risk of displaying ignorance I'll suggest trying Firefox instead of Chrome (if you haven't) as I gather Firefox includes default characters to overcome encoding problems which Chrome does not. I've no idea what IE does in this regard.
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Mostly I use Opera, actually.
There are some characters I can just paste in
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Possibly those with mnemonic escape sequences, such as "& amp ;" for & which is also Unicode 0026 #x0026;
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I'm unsure what the forum software will and won't allow, as well. That's probably the underlying cause. I pinged a couple people to have a look.
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I have also noticed how I can see extended characters just fine the preview, but then lose them in the actual post.
I believe it is a limitation of how the forum software stores posts into records. It would need a way to record and differentiate these codes from ordinary plain text content; to know when to parse those strings as code to render the special text.
I would think using code tags would help (treat this as code, not text), but they do not.
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Code tags seem nonfunctional here. The Forum parses and converts URL's within them, for instance.
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The main thing code tags do for me is provide mono-spaced formatting with the ability to have multiple spaces. I use them all the time in GTP updates. This... MeadowviewCollector $22.00
jardins $23.00
pawpaw34 $24.00
COINAHOLIC $25.00
Dar $26.00 Is better than this... MeadowviewCollector $22.00 jardins $23.00 pawpaw34 $24.00 COINAHOLIC $25.00 Dar $26.00 These lists are entered identically. The difference is that the first one is surrounded by code tags. |
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I have noticed the problem too when posting information on Asian coins, the Kanji just doesn't come out right. I assume it is because the encoding is set to charset=ISO-8859-1 instead of UTF-8.
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04/15/2015 6:14 pm
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Copy/paste works on some. And jbuck had it figured out for Firefox in this thread  What we used to do in the olden days is press ALT then the numbers on the number key pad, then let go of ALT and the symbol would show up. Actually having it show up [in a post] may be a different story, though. 203: #9574; 204: #9568; (these show up in the reply box) |
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Yeah, probably something in the sanitizing of the post when it's stored or retrieved.
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What we used to do in the olden days is press ALT then the numbers on the number key pad, then let go of ALT and the symbol would show up. That's the only way I'e ever used, to this day. Old habits die hard, I guess. |
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Posted 04/15/2015 1:55 pm
